A History of Indian Medical Literature v3.c42.s29.1

v3.c42.s29.1

Regarding the date of the *Siddhayoga* J. Jolly 123 rightly remarked that it must have been composed at least a century before Cakrapāṇidatta, because it had become an authoritative work in the latter's time. The reference to Mādhava's *Rogaviniścaya* in the *Siddhayoga* implies that Vṛnda is posterior to Mādhava. D.Ch. Bhattacharyya 124 based his date of Vṛnda (A.D. 975–1000) on the absence of borrowings from Māhuka’s *Haramekhala* (dated by him in A.D. 965) and from Candraṭa (dated by him in A.D. 950), both quoted in Cakrapāṇidatta’s *Cikitsāsaṃgraha*. ¹²⁵ He concluded that Vṛnda must have been a contemporary of Candraṭa and Māhuka, though his arguments do not preclude an earlier date. P.V. Sharma ¹²⁶ places Vṛnda in the ninth century on account of the mention of Jejjata in the *Siddhayoga*. ¹²⁷ Jejjata’s date, however, is earlier in my opinion. The allegation, emanating from M.Z. Siddiqi, ¹²⁸ that the *Siddhayoga* is referred to by Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Ya‘qūbī, ¹²⁹ who lived in the second half of the ninth century, can be dismissed, since the work mentioned by this Arab author proves to be Ravigupta’s *Siddhasāra*. ¹³⁰